The Office: Employee Transfer, 5.06

Summary (NBC): Pam is embarrassed when she is the only person at corporate wearing a costume on Halloween. Holly and Michael take the long trip to Nashua after they get some shocking news from corporate.

A lot going on in this episode (maybe too much). This is one that you kind of have to re-watch.

Andy and Dwight were very funny, and so was the cold open but after that I don’t know. It just seemed all a mess and the Pam and Jim storyline in this ep really wasn’t all that great.

I do think the writers did a good job in “ending” Holly and Michael’s relationship. It was sad, but it wasn’t over-done in a way that would make it a HUGE deal and that fans would be extremely upset about.

Loved the whole Dwight/Andy/Cornell feud. We haven’t seen a whole lot of interaction between those 2 so that was cool. The interview part with Dwight evaluating Andy as the interviewer had me laughing pretty good. Also Creed as Heath Ledger’s Joker was actually kinda scary!

This episode was hilarious! There were too many funny moments to name, Dwight pulling the desk away from Andy, Michael, Holly & Darryl singing Life is a Highway, Michael randomly screaming. Oh man what an awesome episode.
Michael and Holly broke my heart though! I’m going to miss Amy Ryan. Her and Michael were perfect for each other! She brought out such an endearing side of Michael.

1)Jim being defensive of Pam’s art dreams-adorable!!!
2)Andy dressing up as a cat from ‘Cats’
3)Andy’s line, “that’s a bobble Big Red Bear!”
4)Pretty much all of the costumes, and the continuity with Angela wearing the same cat costume she did in season 2
5)”Don’t make it harder than it has to be.” “Fine. That’s what she said.”
6)”I seriously doubt that anyone from Cornell dated you.”

I don’t get it why… why do shows get us so hooked like that. I really wanted to see something well to happen with Michael and Holly. It just blows now to see that she is probably gone. In reality Michael would have not let her leave no matter what. Finding someone with such a compatible personality… rare and once you find it never let it go.

Oh well lose to win. I guess since we lose Holly we can now look for forward seeing Jim and Pam.

This episode reminded me a lot of Product Recall. The Dwight-Andy interaction was a lot like Jim and Dwight in Product recall, especially the role reversal in the tag. Other parallels include Michael and Darryl on a road trip and the singing in the car.

My only real problem with this episode is that it seemed like Dwight was totally out of character. I mean without Michael or Jim there, he was in charge of the office. He didn’t act that way at all, which is what you’d expect.

This is the first ep of the season that I’m going to rate lower than an 8.

#12 Penn Stater
Perhaps he is not a big fan of PDA? (He did kiss her twice at the office while others were there.) Or perhaps it was because his brothers were there. IMO there would be nothing wrong with a quick kiss. Just a couple of possibilities.

A pretty good episode. My fave part was when Darryl and Michael were driving back and “singing” the blues. Michael just didn’t get it – but that part when he really tried to belt out the NA NA NA NA’s and his voice cracked was HYSTERICAL!

Amy Ryan – we will miss you! When she started crying in the truck – WOW!